Chapter 41: A Commoner’s Duty
Commanding Officer Eom Gyeonghan emerged from his thoughts.
He raised his eyes.
A young man with a gentle expression was looking at him with a puzzled face.
Though he looked like a frail and unremarkable youth—someone who could be called a Confucian scholar—he was the Palace Master.
Ordinarily, someone whom a man like Eom Gyeonghan wouldn’t even be permitted to meet. Perhaps even a being forever veiled in mystery.
The Dragon of the Heavenly Flame Palace, who was said to dwell among the clouds—this was him.
“It is the duty of kings and nobles to defend the state,
but the rise and fall of the world is a matter even a lowly commoner must bear.”
The fate of the world rests even on the shoulders of a mere commoner.
Like those words, Eom Gyeonghan had always seen himself as a mere commoner.
He might not have the power to move nations, but he believed it was his responsibility to raise sword and spear to protect the world.
So he had lived his life with that line engraved in his heart—and had risen to the rank of general, to a post tasked with defending the country.